Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.

From:

Rob Browning

Subject:

Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.

Date:

Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:34:48 -0500

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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu)

We are pleased to annouce the availability of Guile 1.5.8 for testing.
Please report problems to address@hidden or address@hidden
Note that the 1.5.X series is a BETA series, intended only for
testing, so please don't put it into a distribution or anything
similar.
This release is only a minor update from 1.5.7 -- guile-snarf has
been changed to not require the input file to be the first argument
after the optional -o. Apparently this was breaking too many other
programs. Since this update was so minor, Marius and I agreed that
the release date should remain unchanged. So unless any release
critical bugs bugs are found beforehand, the first 1.6 stable
version, 1.6.1, will be released on or after this weekend.
You can find the beta release here:
ftp://ftp.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/guile/
If you're interested in testing, please try as much of the following
as is convenient:
- Unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH.
- Remove automake and autoconf from your path, or turn off
their execute bits, or something. (Users must be able to
build from the tarfile without installing those tools.) As
an example, you could disable the tools during the test like
so:
mkdir /tmp/stub
cat > /tmp/stub/do-nothing <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
echo warning: $0 called
sleep 10
exit 0
EOF
chmod +x /tmp/stub/do-nothing
ln /tmp/stub/do-nothing /tmp/stub/automake
ln /tmp/stub/do-nothing /tmp/stub/autoconf # etc
PATH=/tmp/stub:$PATH
- Configure, "make", "make check", and "make install". Make
sure to remove your previous install tree before the "make
install".
- Make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't include anything
unnecessary -- though at the moment it (or
LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH) will need to include guile's lib
directory if that directory is not already in the normal
places libltdl looks.
- Run the test suite on the installed version.
./check-guile -i [INSTALL_PATH]/bin/guile
- Look at the install tree (with "find | sort" or similar) and
make sure nothing seems obviously amiss.
- Make sure readline works.
- You might try the example code in the doc directory.
Thanks
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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